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Jean-Luc Verna
jean-luc verna, view of the exhibition la folle du logis, le printemps de septembre 2021
© le printemps de septembre
photo : damien aspe
Practical information:
76, allées Charles-de-Fitte, 31300 Toulouse
Opening on Friday 17 September from 6pm to 11pm
Wednesday to Sunday from 12pm to 6pm
Night-time on 17 and 18 September until 11pm
Jean-Luc Verna exhibits simultaneously at Gare Toulouse Matabiau.
Whether he is dancing, singing, being photographed or tattooing his body/sculpture, or even drawing, Jean-Luc Verna is a fascinating figure at the intersection of several contemporary worlds. In the world of art, his corporeal image merges into images of his works. His birds, frightening clowns, threatening faces and landscapes drenched in melancholy form a visual universe whose strangeness hesitates between laughter, hazy concern and cruelty. His natural affinities take hm just as easily toward punk culture as toward "decadent" symbolist artists of the late 19th century.
In partnership with les Abattoirs, Musée – Frac Occitanie Toulouse
Born in 1966 in Nice (France), Jean-Luc Verna lives and works in Paris. His work has been on view in solo shows at, most recently, Air de Paris (Romainville, 2021), Musée d’Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse (2018), MACVAL (Vitry-Sur-Seine, 2016), and Mamco (Geneva, 2001). Jean-Luc Verna regularly participates in group shows, notably at Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris (2021), galerie du jour agnès b. (Hong Kong, 2020), Wilhelm-Hack-Museum (Ludwigshafen am Rhein, 2018), MAC de Marseille (2018), Biennale du Québec (2017), Centre Pompidou (Paris, 2017), and CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (San Francisco, 2014).